Word: crisscrosses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Nothin' much happened. Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those far-away old stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing we can do about it. It's pretty quiet now. Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk. Down behind the morgue a few of the young people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire...
...energy (Nixon is 47, Kennedy 43). Only men still young could have hammered away at each other so hard for a steady hour, their heads so full of facts and figures. They showed the aggressiveness and alertness that makes them formidable campaigners, the drive that enables them relentlessly to crisscross the country all day, all week, to keep up the most exhausting schedules in the history of U.S. presidential campaigns...
Scrounged Parts. Only one satellite is needed for an accurate navigational fix, but when the Navy's system is operational in 1962, four satellites will crisscross in a synchronization planned to serve all quarters of the earth. The advantage to commercial shipping will be slight, since present methods are more than adequate. But the military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will...
...they inhabit is a bulging bundle of nerves, a webwork of highways that crisscross for 220,000 miles in all directions, including ever-higher altitudes. Moreover, the dawn of the commercial jet age - with 94 jet transports already in U.S. airline service, and about 150 more due by year's end - with its near sonic speeds and bigger loads, has compounded all of the vast problems of the Air Age with unparalleled force...